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Hunter Biden appeals

Hunter Biden filed an interlocutory appeal with the Ninth Circuit on Friday, arguing a federal judge improperly rejected his bid to dismiss tax evasion charges because a plea agreement barred the special counsel from charging him.

Walmart pays up

FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. — Following 11 days of trial, a federal court in Arkansas ordered Walmart to pay $101.2 million to London Luxury after the big box store wrongly canceled a contract with the manufacturer for pandemic protective gloves. London Luxury must pay $350,000 to the retail giant on counter-claims that the glove maker offered its global sourcing director incentives to overlook its own breaches of contract. The nine-person jury’s verdict was split.

Libel liability

SAN FRANCISCO — The Ninth Circuit upheld the dismissal of a libel lawsuit brought by former North Bronx congressional candidate Herbert Moreira-Brown, who was previously accused of rape when a reporter wrote an article about the lawsuit that was published in the Las Vegas Review-Journal. The article did not amount to defamation because the newspaper accurately reported the allegations, and Morreira-Brown could not show falsity.

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